Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 3.2.26

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on. Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody
you are listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Man,
oh man, oh man, God being good to me. Man.
I can't explain it all really, Hey, you know, I

(00:21):
want I want to remind everybody of something that I
need reminding of myself all the time. And I'm I'm
I'm dealing with a couple of things now and I
had to remind myself. Uh, you know what I have
to remember. I have to constantly remind myself to stay
in constant communication with God. Constant communication with God. You know. Uh,

(00:45):
sometimes you know, I have a tendency and maybe we
do all this people I don't know, but I know
for me that when it's going okay, I slack up
in sometimes having conversations with him because I'm not coming
to him on the day with something that's pressing or something,
and I find myself slacking up in the communication. The

(01:07):
danger I have learned in that is this, I think,
you know. I mean, we've all heard old people say,
you know, you got to stay prayed up, you know,
and you know prayed up means you know, you got
some stowed up, You just got an abundance of them
where you're putting it in. Because what happens is is

(01:28):
when you're not in constant communication with God, when you're
not constantly praying, doing those good times, that allows for
the enemy to slip in and do the little things
that can be upsetting. And then the next thing, you
know what, you get several little things in a row.
Now you got an issue you're dealing with. You know,

(01:50):
I have to remind myself when it's going like that, Man,
have I really been praying though? Have I really been
in constant communication with God? Because you know, that helps
God against that little bitty stuff coming in. Sometimes it's
big stuff, sometimes it's major stuff. But I've noticed, man,
that when I get on a more of a smooth

(02:11):
plane in life, I have a tendency to slack up
in that department. And that ain't the time to slack up.
I'm really learning that I have to stay in constant
communication with God because it enables me to ward off
those little things coming up that can get in the way.

(02:31):
And so I just wanted to make you aware of
that as I'm learning it myself, that staying prayed up.
Is important that you try to stop prayers, you know,
you try to you know, have some prayers in the bank,
so to speak, and just constant communication with him, because
it'll just safeguard you against a lot of stuff back
doing you. You know, I just wanted to make sure

(02:53):
you understood that because on your journey, it's gonna be
many obstacles. I've said this one hundred times on the show.
The road to success is always under construction. I say
that all the time, and it's to let you understand
that it's not going to be easy, but we can
make it more difficult than it has to be, you know,

(03:16):
when you go out, strike out on the journey. You know,
let's say I got in my car. Let's say I'm
in New York and I get in my car and
I say I'm going to LA. I know, if I
drive west and continue to drive west, eventually I should

(03:36):
get to California, or I may wind up in Portland
or Seattle or something like that. But if I drive west,
I'm going to eventually get to the West Coast. Now
wouldn't it be smarter though? If I mapped out the
route which saved me a bunch of driving I don't

(04:00):
need and figuring that I don't have to calculate when
you know the way to go. You know, if you
know you want to cut cross on the twenty, or
you want to cut cross on the seventy, or you
want to cut cross on the tin, you know you

(04:21):
got to devise a route. Now, if I want to
go visit some people I know, then I know I
got to I need to go down. You know, I
might go through Ohio, come down on the eighty, then
get on seventy one and take that all the way
down to the ten and then ride across. So I
might take it to the twenty, cut through Texas and
then and then let it link back up on the ten.

(04:41):
I know a lot of different ways, but guess what
the best way is to map it out. You can
go anywhere, but if you go with a map, it's
more precise. You save yourself a lot of time. And
that's what prayer has taught me that when I will
entify continuously p that I stay in the in the

(05:02):
in the in the I stay in the prepared mode,
I have more idea of where I'm going. I'm more
secure with my route. If you just take off driving
heading west. Yeah, you'll eventually get to the west coast
if you out east. But guess what though, had you
mapped it out, you can see when you veering off,
you may stop, come out and not be paying attention.

(05:24):
Next thing, you know, you're on a route and you
go on another way. You're going north when you could
easily still be going west. You've got to constantly be
aware of that. And I'm just pointing that out to
you because I know that on your journey a lot
of times you get sidetracked. And part of the ways
we get sidetracked is we lose out on that very
the very beneficial resource of prayer. We lose out with

(05:47):
our connection with God gets strained. The thicker you can
keep the cord connected to God if you thin out
your communication with God. And instead of having a big cable,
now you're dealing with a little thread. You know, a
cable is stronger than thread, and so it just decreases

(06:09):
your opportunity. And so you know, I wanted to just
make you aware of that, and you know, to ever
be encouraging to say to everybody out there and just
keep your head up. It is going to be dark
days for you. There are going to be situations where
it's going to be daunting and hard to face. But
man o, man oh man, everybody has to face these challenges.

(06:31):
Everybody get dark sometimes. You know, Look, if you didn't lose,
if you didn't lose, you wouldn't even appreciate winning because
if it all went your weight all the time. Do
you know how complacent and content and how easy life
would be if it just went your way all the time.

(06:54):
So when it kept going your way, you wouldn't even
appreciate it because guess what, it's been going this way
the whole time. So what life does is it has
its checks and balances. These hard times are coming, and
you need the hard times to appreciate the good times.
You need the clouds and you need the rain to
appreciate the sun and the flowers. It's just when it

(07:17):
comes to prayer, though, just stay prayed up, stay constant
with it, because the challenges of life are coming, whether
you prayed up or not, they're coming. Understand that you
could pray every day all day. When you get through
praying every day all day, something's gonna happen to you
that's gonna be challenging. Now, I would rather have been

(07:40):
in communication with God on a regular than wait till
every time something pop off to have to go to
and reintroduce myself. Okay, it was over a little around
the board with it today, but that's how it came
to me, so that is I ain't mad at it.
Y'all have a great day. We're gonna have a good
one the day. Let's go deep. Harvey Morning Show